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The Anchorage International Film Festival was founded in 2001 by Tony Sheppard. Since its inception, the festival has grown to become the largest multi-genre film festival in Alaska. [6] For the 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions of AIFF, the festival director was Rebecca Pottebaum. In 2018 the festival was directed by Jessica Kaiser.
The Fur Rendezvous Festival (usually called Fur Rendezvous, Fur Rondy, or simply Rondy) is an annual winter festival held in Anchorage, Alaska, in late February.The self-styled "largest winter festival in North America", Fur Rendezvous is highly anticipated by many Anchorage-area residents as marking the beginning of the end of a long winter and the approach of spring.
Blanket toss in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Nalukataq (Inupiaq: [nɐlukɐtɑq], naluk-'to throw it underhand; to toss it up' + kataq) is the spring whaling festival of the Iñupiat of Northern Alaska, especially the North Slope Borough. It is characterized by its namesake, the dramatic Eskimo blanket toss.
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May 26—Even though it's felt like summer for much of May, Memorial Day weekend usually signals the unofficial start to the season in Alaska. For many, summer means fishing, camping and plenty of ...
The Messenger Feast or Kivgiq [pronunciation?], Kevgiq [pronunciation?] (Kivgiġñiq in Iñupiaq dialect of North Slope Borough, [1] Kivgiqsuat in King Island Iñupiaq, [2] Kevgiq in Yup'ik [3] [4]), is a celebratory mid-winter festival in Alaska traditionally held by Iñupiaq (Tikiġaġmiut, Nunamiut...) and Yup'ik peoples after a strong whale harvest.
All fairs since 1952 have been held at the current location, on land which the association originally leased from the University of Alaska. [6] In 1936, the Matanuska Valley Fair formed in Palmer. It saw a name change in 1959 to the "Alaska State Fair" when Alaska was upgraded from a territory to a state in the United States of America. That ...
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